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Hello,
I have been running Fedora Redhat Core 1 for a couple of months.
This problem deals with the installation that I have on my Dell Inspiron 1100 Laptop.
Yesterday, I used synaptic to do a system update on my installed packages. I received the usual "duplicate packages" warning because I haven't turned that feature off in my config file. (Not sure which one to edit)
See below...
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There are multiple versions of "XFree86-xfs" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86-xfs$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "XFree86-Mesa-libGL" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86-Mesa-libGL$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "fal

There are multiple versions of "foomatic" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^foomatic$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "XFree86-base-fonts" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86-base-fonts$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "fal

There are multiple versions of "xchat" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^xchat$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "XFree86-devel" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86-devel$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "XFree86-75dpi-fonts" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86-75dpi-fonts$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "f

There are multiple versions of "libxml2-python" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^libxml2-python$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "gdm" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^gdm$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "coreutils" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^coreutils$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "libxml2" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^libxml2$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "XFree86-xauth" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86-xauth$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "XFree86" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "XFree86-libs" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86-libs$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "perl" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^perl$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "XFree86-Mesa-libGLU" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86-Mesa-libGLU$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "f

There are multiple versions of "XFree86-100dpi-fonts" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86-100dpi-fonts$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning

There are multiple versions of "XFree86-twm" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86-twm$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "libxml2-devel" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^libxml2-devel$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

There are multiple versions of "XFree86-libs-data" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^XFree86-libs-data$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false

There are multiple versions of "XFree86-truetype-fonts" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

As I have done before, I used "$rpm -q <package> " to determine the older version, then "$rpm -e <package.older-version>" to remove the older one. I'm not sure what happened, maybe I restarted my box before the new packages were actually installed. When I did restart, I could only log on in a command prompt. I ran "$redhat-config-xfree86" and received the following error...
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Error generated when I ran redhat-config-xfree86

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I used apt-get update and install to try to reinstall the packages that I had removed. That didn't work either.

I have also enclosed the .xsession-errors file...
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.xsession-errors documentation

You rock!!!
I did your rpm entry and I was able to get KDE to come up. I had to reinstall a few other packages to get Gnome working again, but all of my settings were still intact. I never would have gotten that far without your help!!!